Is perl slotted?

sgarcia · Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 3:16 am Post subject: Is perl slotted?

I was under the impression that perl, like python, was slotted. However, I just tried to run perl-cleaner to get all my perl packages re-done, and I get these messages:

nexus780 · Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 5:56 am Post subject:

Perl (at least normally) is unfortunately not slotted. However if it were slotted you wouldn't have a problem, when emerge says "slot conflict" it means that whatever you're trying to do is trying to pull in two libperl packages in the same slot, namely the default slot "0". What are you trying to do?

sgarcia · Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 2:47 pm Post subject:

I was just trying to do a world upgrade. A number of packages were failing because of problems with perl packages, so I figured that perl-clean would rebuild those packages so they would work with the new perl.

I think I've got it solved. Some obscure perl package was pulling in perl 5.8 -- I don't know where 5.10 was coming from, but once I got rid of it, all my packages are now rebuilding.
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nexus780 · Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 9:28 am Post subject:

Ah yes I encountered that problem a couple of times, I think it was with kdelibs. For the future (and for people finding this thread) I found an easy way to identify the offending package (ie. the one that pulls in an old version of perl, kdelibs, or whatever) is to package.mask the old version of perl/kdelibs/whatever. Then portage gives a clear indication which package is depending on the old version.

John R. Graham · Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 11:09 am Post subject:

More directly, you can use equery to show the dependencies of an explicitly stated version:

miroR · l33t Joined: 05 Mar 2008 Posts: 826

miroR · l33t Joined: 05 Mar 2008 Posts: 826

This is my problem...
The only package depending on libperl that boggles my brainz is perl itself (pls. see my previous post).
But...
But, take a look at what depends on that perl version:

sera · Retired Dev Joined: 29 Feb 2008 Posts: 1017 Location: CET

And simply telling portage to emerge perl before world doesn't work?

miroR · l33t Joined: 05 Mar 2008 Posts: 826

miroR · l33t Joined: 05 Mar 2008 Posts: 826

I added this line to /etc/portage/package.mask
>sys-devel/libperl-5.8.8-r2

All is now upgraded, just the perl is prevented from.

miroR · l33t Joined: 05 Mar 2008 Posts: 826

Here:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342451
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rlodwig · n00b Joined: 23 Sep 2009 Posts: 12

This question is going to illustrate my profound ignorance, but have you tried your emerge as root (if not already)?

miroR · l33t Joined: 05 Mar 2008 Posts: 826

I never bothered creating much else than root on my system anyway... Well, almost...
Thanks for your care, anyway.
But this does go a little deeper than I can trully follow it either, yes...

miroR · l33t Joined: 05 Mar 2008 Posts: 826

The "bug" or bug is SOLVED.
But it is explained in context of a different bug mentioned above.
Pls. take a look if ever your stumble upon an issue as this one that killed some amount of nerves here.
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342451